Students should demand a community oversight board for Ann Arbor, which hopefully will prevent incidents similar to last Monday's post-national championship game debacle. Missed the U2 concert last month? Then, check out Wig's multi-media attack, SUBVERSION PERVERSION. Bono wishes his band could have absurd displays of sadomasochism. The brooms were out in the Michigan sports world yesterday. While the baseball team was busy sweeping Siena Heights, the softball team was doing the same to Michigan State. Today Cloudy to partly sunny; High 56, Low 40 Tomorrow Mostly cloudy; High 64, Low 45 V 42V at1 One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Vol. CI1, No. 115 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, April 15,1992 @1992 The Michigan Daily Notre Dame eliminates smoking areas in campus buildings by Karen Sabgir Daily Higher Education Reporter the University o Mounting evidence condemning stat thinking at second-hand smoke as a health haz- wide policy last y ard is inspiring many college and A task force university administrators across the dents, faculty, a country to expand their smoking staff members - policies to further protect non- non-smokers - smokers. Notre Dame to o Although the University still reg- smoking policy w ulates smoking on a building-to- if so, what suc building basis, in the past few years encompass. many colleges have switched over to Assistant Di blanket policies that ban smoking in Relations at No all campus buildings and vehicles Brown said the t with few exceptions. the smoking pc Health issues, primarily the ef- schools - includi fects of second-hand smoke on non- of Wisconsin and smokers, motivated administrators at creating the one a Bush visits Mich. during campaignu gye cFRASER, Mich. (AP) - President Bush sought yes- terday to hold the political allegiance of Reagan Democrats in this economically battered state, portray- ing himself as a champion of reform pitted against a paralyzed Congress. "I'm the first to admit that I can't always count on Congress to act, no matter how great the urgency," Bush said, reciting problems with the economy, schools, health care, the legal system and government accountability. Bush spoke before business leaders and workers at Giddings & Lewis Co. manufacturing plant, a leader in 'I'm the first to admit that I can't always count on Congress to act, no matter how great the urgency.' - George Bush automated machine systems. He also was building up his campaign war chest with a $1,000-a-plate fund-rais- ing dinner in nearby Dearborn. In a state hammered by plant closings, auto layoffs and 9.3 percent unemployment, Bush boasted that his administration has landed trading victories over Japan, the increasingly successful rival to the Big Three automakers. "Since I took office, our exports to Japan have grown 10 times faster than our imports from Japan, and our manufactured products are leading this expansion," Bush said. "That boom has already created an addi- tional 200,000 jobs here at home." He recalled that his trip to Japan in January won pledges from private companies to increase their pur- chases of U.S. auto parts by $10 billion. * Bush did not mention that Japan held a $43.4 billion annual trade surplus with the United States last year, which constituted 65 percent of America's trade imbalance. The plant where Bush spoke is located in suburban Detroit's Macomb County, a mostly white, working- class area that is considered a hub of Democratic defectors. After casting the nation's highest margin of votes for John Kennedy in 1960, Macomb's voters have moved steadily toward the GOP tent, angered by higher taxes and what they felt were liberal welfare policies that fa- vored minorities. See BUSH, Page 2 f Notre Dame to bout a university- ear. composed of stu- .dministrators and - both smokers and was established at ook into whether a was necessary and, h a policy would rector of Public tre Dame Dennis ask force looked at ilicies of several ing the Universities Missouri - while t Notre Dame. Based on the risks that result from environmental tobacco smoke, the University of Wisconsin- Madison instituted a policy last certain recreation rooms in the stu- dent union - all of which will be periodically monitored. However, these exceptions will be reviewed 'The primary motivation for the policy was health-related. ... It applies mostly to the issue of second-hand smoke.' - Dennis Brown public relations director Notre Dame and simply a health-related matter on how it affects non-smokers. ... The primary motivation for the pol- icy was health-related. ... It applies mostly to the issue of second-hand smoke," Brown said. Prior to the establishment of the policy, each building on the Notre Dame campus was identified as ei- ther smoking or non-smoking. Dr. Fred Glaser, director of the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Center, said the University follows a similar building-specific policy. Citing the difficulty of creat- ing a policy for the entire University, Glaser said he does not think there are any plans to broaden the policy. The policy put together by Notre Dame's task force was recom- mended to the university officers, who approved it in February. The new policy will be implemented Aug. 1, 1992. Brown said he does not think the policy will create problems on cam- pus. "Smoking policies are com- monplace now.... They are becom- ing part and parcel of the university environment and the business world as well. "The policy has brought in a wide variety of responses ... but by and large, even the smoker on cam- pus recognizes that there needs to be some control." April stating that all buildings and vehicles owned or leased by the uni- versity will be entirely smoke-free. The policy designated a few smoking areas - non-communal living spaces, some hotel rooms and and possibly revoked during the 199293 academic year. "A guiding principle for the task force is that it was designed not to come down on smokers but purely Strikers picket A2 Kiogers for new contract by Christopher Scherer Daily Staff Reporter About 25 strikers picketed in front of the Kroger grocery store on Packard Road yesterday afternoon in response to ongoing contractual dis- putes between employees and Kroger Co. management. According to an open letter to Kroger customers from the UFCW Local 539 representing Meat and Seafood Department employees, the Kroger company "has been trying to replace our full-time jobs with part- time jobs at substandard wages and benefits." The letter concluded, "We are not asking for much, but we are not willing to cave in to corporate greed and bad faith bargaining." Kroger Cashier Daryl Dungey said the purpose of the strike is to dissuade customers from shopping at the store. "It is costing more to run the store with the lighting and wages of new employees than the food they are selling," Dungey said. "If they don't make any money then they have no choice but to talk to us." "It is time for us to start making money. We have not had a raise in 12 years. The economy is not the same," Dungey added. Picket captain Gordon Miller said out of Kroger's 70 employees, 66 are striking. "If we had a fair pro- posal we could all go back to work happily," ,he said.' According to a "Fact Sheet" on the back of the picketers' letter to Kroger customers, the company's contract offers would reduce over- time and vacation benefits to work- ers. "The language of the contract bothered the people, and Sundays and holidays are the ... main prob lems we have," Miller said. Miller said he projected that See KROGER, Page 2 Helen Walker, a striking baker at the Kroger on Packard, convinces a customer not to shop at the store by telling him about the reasons for the workers' strike. She said, "We are not just here for the money. They have done nothing but take away from us for 11 years." Walker persuaded several shoppers to go elsewhere for their groceries. Deputization protesters' charges reduced by Ben Deci Daily Crime Reporter Three students arrested during the University deputization hearings plea- bargained to reduce their charges yester- day at a pretrial hearing. First-year engineering student James Locke and LSA junior Stanley Slaughter were both originally charged with dis- turbing the peace and assault and battery. A third defendant, LSA sophomore Marlesia Neloms, pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace and assault and bat- tery with both of those charges taken un- der advisement. The stipulation would suspend any sentence for Neloms' crime unless there is further criminal action on Neloms' part. Neloms was also asked to pay court costs. The arrests occurred when 200 protesters clashed with University and Ann Arbor police during the public hearings for the deputization of duce Locke's and Slaughter's charges to "jostling in a crowd" and disturbing the peace. Jostling in a crowd, a misdemeanor, carries a maximum sentence of 90 days This is the second pretrial hearing for the student protesters. The first was postponed so the court could obtain and view videotapes taken during the protests that they said could have been relevant to the case. the student protesters. The first was post- poned so the court could obtain and view videotapes taken during the protests that they said could have been relevant to the case. "The videos didn't clear or convict," Lewis said. The two tapes, one shot by a DPS officer and the other shot by a Fleming Administration Building secu- rity camera, offered substantial evidence against only one of his clients, Lewis said. Lewis said his main concern in the case was to help his clients. "It's not important whether or not I'm happy with it. The clients seem satisfied. Seldom does somebody ever walk away from a trial really happy," he said. Department of Public Safety (DPS) offi- cers Feb. 19 and 20. District Attorney Konrad Siller and Defense attorneys Doug Lewis of Student Legal Services and Thomas Corderman successfully bargained to re- in jail and/or a $100 fine. "It's unusual," Lewis said, "but the assistant district at- torney found it more appropriate." The students will be sentenced on May 5 at 10 a.m. This is the second pretrial hearing for Publishers sue Mich. Document Services. by Sarah Fette Three members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently filed a lawsuit against Michigan Document Services for the company's alleged copying and distributing of excerpts from texts without AAP permission. Thank Your Easter Bunny Brian Evers, ~ Briarwoodp Mall's Easter Bunny, gives an Easter present to a shopper b yesterd ay . Evers was kept is busy the entire day with a 3 constant flow of children, some of whom had - Yeltsin alowed to continue rule by decree MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Communist-dominated parliament backed down yesterday from a week-long clash with President Boris Yeltsin and passed a declara- tion that will allow him to continue his free-market re- forms. The declaration preserves Yeltsin's power to rule by decree and directs the government to continue the painful reforms that the lawmakers oppose. It apparently averted one of Russia's most serious nolitical crises since the collanse of the Soviet Union